Just in case you haven’t been following the saga that is the impending closure of SoMa mainstay, the Eagle Tavern, the Guardian’s Emily Appelbaum gives a pretty good run-down up until this point here.

In addition, if you want to join in the rabble that have amassed to protest these proceedings, put on your cruisiest rags and head on down to a guerilla leather bar that is happening at the Skylark at 8 p.m. tonight. After all it wasn’t all that long ago that the space was known as La India Bonita, the other drag doyenne of 16th Street, and another queer space lost to the city’s hazy memory. It’s a small miracle that its batty sister, Esta Noche, is still around and not some precious swill mill, quite frankly.

It’s oft lamented how all these queer spaces have evaporated and how mainstream and commodified places like Castro Street have become, so let’s see if we can’t save South of Market from the whitewash.

Everyone is welcome so even if you don’t have a little sugar in your tank, come support anyway. You gotta love activism that only requires you to show up and drink.

Stephen Torres - Threadbare-Fact Finder

Stephen's early years were spent in a boxcar overlooking downtown Los Angeles. From there he moved around the state with his family before settling under the warm blanket of smog that covers suburban Southern California. Moving around led to his inabilty to stay in one place for very long, but San Francisco has been reeling him back in with its siren song since 1999.
By trade he pours booze, but likes to think he can write and does so occasionally for people like the SF Bay Guardian. He also likes to enoy time spent in old eateries, bars and businesses that, by most standards, would have been condemned a long time ago.

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